travel, living locations

[wispfox]

I often wonder what it is that other people look for when traveling, beyond visiting specific people. Same as far as where people choose to live. So! I ask y'all what you think.

When you are traveling, especially if it involves returning to a place you've visited before, what makes your decision on where to go? I'd rather avoid answers which are specific to people instead of location, because people is already why I travel most of the time. I want other answers. I want to know where to go, why to go, and what to do when there. Outdoors and indoors, places to eat and places to visit, places to feed my mind, my ears, or my eyes. Sell your favorite places to visit to me!

Similarly, if you like where you live, or somewhere that you have lived in the past, why? If the answer is specific people, that's fine, but I want to know more than that. Is it access to specific social groups? Activities like museums or parks or forests? Safe neighborhoods? What?

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[wispfox.livejournal.com]

some specific attractions like scenery, adventures, etc.

See, that's the kind of things I want to know, and generally _don't_ know. So, you _are_ some help. :) (So there! ;)

had a driving trip with a then-partner and we drove wherever we felt like down the West Coast, stopped where we felt like stopping, side trips when we felt like it, and so on. That was pretty good.

That sounds a _lot_ like my eventual plans to wander around the US (http://www.livejournal.com/users/wispfox/111818.html). Hopefully _with_ other people, of course, but we shall see where my life is when I finally get around to that.

Was talking to weegoddess last night about this, actually - I tend to think that I don't have long-term plans, but then I remember that right this very moment I:

plan to visit wolfieboy when I have a better sense of what's going on in Aug and Sept, want to try to meet bridgetester, want to visit shadesong again, want to come visit you, want to travel around the US after I pay off school loans and save up enough, want to do massage school, and then perhaps try to figure out a way to combine my interest in energy work, massage, and picking through people's brains (when they are cooperating with it).

And I claim I have no plans. Sheesh! And that's not even including all the various cons and con-like things I intend to do! (baitcon, bicamp, falconridge, arisia, altpolycon, etc)

I should post that somewhere, so I don't forget. Perhaps something similar to my shorter-term plan list... *thinks*